The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Popular Mechanics Series

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	The Boy Mechanic: Best Projects from the Classic Popular Mechanics Series Popular Mechanics Dover Publications, 2006 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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A nostalgic flashback to a simpler time, this compilation features a variety of profusely illustrated craftwork projects that range from the everyday (birdhouse, bean shooter), to the highly unusual (ice glider, magnetic theater). Provides hours of entertainment, whether used as a manual or simply read for pleasure.

Boy Mechanic is the bomb

I got this for my son. I haen't given it to him yet, but there are a ton of cool things I think he will want to try.

How I developed a "MacGyver" childhood self image

Popular mechanics was the bee's knees as a kid 50 years ago. These little projects seemed to make the amazing possible ... or, most probably, provided the lesson in reality that I was really needing. I think I developed a popular mechanics project worldview for a time. I was on a mission to solve every human mechanical defugalty with a little Rube Goldberg-like solution. MacGyver had to have been a PM and PS reader!

These are the originals from PM. One reviewer laments the lack of detail in the projects. That would be correct ... the details are a bit lacking, occasionally the omissions are major but mostly minor. The details, on the other hand, would have spoiled the raw pleasure of the discovery and invention required to complete the project using your own "plan B".

I hope my grandkids `get it'!

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